Indian women fighting discrimination using the Internet (and a bit of snark).

Upper-class Indians have mostly done away
with many of the obvious forms of sexism. In an earlier generation, just going
out to work was mostly taboo but now if you come from a family with, say, college degrees, that (mostly) shouldn’t
be an issue.

But that hardly means sexism doesn’t exist in
these circles. In Britain, the Everyday
Sexism Project, a website founded in 2012 aimed to show up the more subtle
forms of sexism that Western society ignores as “harmless”. Of course, what
society at large considers harmless is quite tricky. As early as a hundred
years ago, Western society considered the lack of voting rights for women “harmless”.

As is quite clear, anything short of full
equality of gender is certainly not harmless. In India, a Facebook page, calling itself
the Spoilt Modern Indian Woman aims to call out exactly this sort of everyday
sexism.

Founded by Bruce Vain (pseudonym) and Sonam
Mittal, the page started when Mittal was called a “spoilt modern Indian
woman“ who takes the “liberty given by the Indian (male) society for
granted” in a public post on social media. In the best traditions of reappropriating bigoted language, Vain and Mittal decided to use the phrase as the name for their anti-sexism page.

The page aimed to take a stereotype and
smash it by adding a plot twist. Here are the ten best memes about the “Spoilt
Modern Indian Woman” (three cheers to her!).